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How to prevent PIFU from making health inequalities worse
A major gap in the research and development of PIFU is whether and how it might affect health inequalities. Ahead of a HETT panel on PIFU, Elliott Engers writes about how digital platforms should be used to prevent the exacerbation of health inequalities through PIFU.
How can we ensure clinical safety when digitising PIFU?
Read Dr Jo Garland’s views on how digitising PIFU and rolling it out nationally will help create clinical bandwidth to see the patients that really need it, when they need it. Crucially Jo writes about the clinical risks can be mitigated with a digital tool like Infinity.
How can PIFU reduce NHS waiting lists?
Patient Initiated Follow-Up - known as PIFU - is an alternative way to manage outpatients, moving away from regular in-person follow-up appointments which are often not necessary, towards appointments only when needed. Care can be personalised to suit individual patients.